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Every year, I write and take photos of food or drinks to celebrate each season or holiday and Valentine always makes the cut. Not only must I have a post honoring the not so holiday, but I must celebrate it... Continue reading →

There’s always the holidays to make certain dishes that we don’t always get to have during the rest of the year. But these days, it’s not always so. During the holidays, my father(God rest his soul) always had a goat... Continue reading →

Baby it’s cold outside…so we are having deliciously sweet and spicy wings for the win! This recipe show me pepper eh! Who would have thought that coca cola would be great with Nigerian recipes 🙂 The first time I made... Continue reading →

Let me tell you something o. Never say never! Although I have recently seen a lot of Indian cooking using yogurt, the first time I saw a recipe with a yogurt based marinated chicken, it was on 9jafoodie’s website. I thought, “hmm wetin... Continue reading →

I have been on a little break but I couldn’t stay away for long. I’m just sitting here, writing the story for this recipe and relieving the memories of being a very young child… In Nigeria we have a league of brownie and... Continue reading →

This is my son’s favorite soup of all time and I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t share the recipe with you guys. The red and green soup is a meal of simplicity and it’s made by mixing chopped okra with any type of... Continue reading →

I discovered Shito sauce some moons ago. Did I like it then? hmmm not really. it was a little tasteless, or I may have not understood the taste. Shito is a Ghanaian sauce which I literally use for everything since... Continue reading →

This is one recipe I am very happy with. Why oh why am I happy? The endless possibilities of using the akara(bean) batter is why. I have been practicing, reading and working on new recipes because of my son who has food... Continue reading →

For the love of Egusi; yet no oil! “Say what? No oil?” That was me asking my brother why in the world he was giving me; a pregnant girl Egusi with no palm oil, which I was craving. There is... Continue reading →

It smells like Christmas and if you ever helped fry chicken during the holidays; then you are in for a treat. Anyway let’s do some holiday food therapy. A while ago, I got this recipe from my friend Maram and saying that I love it is... Continue reading →

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Hi... my name is Nma. I am quirky, and what you would call a nerd. As a growing girl, I disliked ‘going into the kitchen’ because I was so ‘lazy’. In fact, my laziness when it came to cooking could be said to have superseded epic proportions! At a point all I could cook was ‘jollof supergetti’ for my brothers.
While my father was alive (may GOD rest his soul), he used to have me make him fresh, oil-less okra soup and boy did I hate it! As the years went by, I started falling in love with art. And the necessity to cook for others, and myself, pushed me to look for ways to rustle up simple but delicious meals. From then, I became more interested in cooking and started developing recipes. I now see cooking as an art, and I consider it my own contribution to the arts in general. Cooking has inspired my project - “Dine Africa”, which is set to show Africa’s culinary culture and exotic cuisines alongside its wide variety of ethnic nationalities, cultures and enormous land mass.
Please join me as I celebrate the arts through African (Nigerian) cooking; and through my mother’s recipes (some of which I tweaked to fit my choices). I shall also share some easy kitchen tips for the ‘lazy’ cooks like me.
Join me as we celebrate food, love and life. Dine Africa with me.
Blessings.